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The US government has placed software designed to train neural networks to analyse satellite images under new export controls in a bid to prevent foreign adversaries using said code.
The decision, made by Uncle Sam's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), is effective today. Vendors shipping software subject to the controls – in that the applications help machine learning systems annotate satellite images in a particular way – will have to apply for a license to sell their products to customers outside of the US and Canada.
"Items warrant control for export because the items may provide a significant military or intelligence advantage to the United States or because foreign policy reasons justify control," the BIS said.
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F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway:
"Ernest, the rich are different from us."
Hemingway:
"Yes. They have more money."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Wednesday January 08 2020, @12:12AM
Hell, how many kids violate copyright, or don't pee in the pool? Who farted in the elevator?
Sure, it's one thing to pass a wishlist and call it law, detecting violations are a completely different animal.
Especially if children are involved in any way.
With the acceptance of computers being routinely told to run arbitrary code from anyone who knows how to ask, Congressmen think they can confine an idea of how to do things? Geez...how many microseconds does it take to send an encrypted document anywhere in the world?
We have a fatal fundamental flaw in most of our computer systems, designed in for the convenience and wishlist enforcement of a very few. The problem is that these mechanisms exist, and are present in nearly all commercial systems. These very same mechanisms are hijaaked, allowing very small factions to have power to inflict enormous damage.
If I convinced a business owner that gasoline made a great floor sanitizer, the bum having a match can easily take the whole place out.
Some have already convinced business owners that having machines with back doors makes sense.
Leaving a lot of us techies in disbelief. Apparently, a course in common sense is not a part of a business education.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]